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Twitter-enabled Mobile Messaging for Smoking Relapse Prevention

NCT01602536 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2024-10-31

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Summary

We conducted a two-arm (test vs. control, N=160) randomized controlled trial of small, private, online support groups for quitting smoking with 20 people per group who were seeking to quit smoking. A novel feature was a bot (auto-messenger) that posted a daily cessation-related discussion topic in each group, timed to the group's quit date.

Conditions

  • Smoking

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

smoking cessation aides

All participants will receive 8 weeks of free nicotine patches, referral to the NCI's online Smokefree.gov Quit Guide, and instruction to set a quit date within 8 days of study start.

BEHAVIORAL

Twitter

Twitter quit-smoking group

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)

    collaborator NIH

  • University of California, Irvine

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Cornelia Pechmann, PhD · University of California, Irvine

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
59 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-06-30
Completion
2014-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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